The late David Halberstam brings to this history of the Korean War the same combination of research, analysis, and narrative skill he delivered in THE BEST AND THE BRIGHTEST, his Pulitzer Prize-winning book on the Vietnam War. THE COLDEST WINTER chronicles the political and military missteps by the larger-than-life personalities, including General Douglas MacArthur, as he shows how their gross misunderstanding took the nation off-course and exacted a costly toll on America's fighting men, whom he depicts as heroes in a bad war. THE COLDEST WINTER was a finalist for the 2008 Pulitzer Prize in History.